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Growing Support for Community Consent Rights for Natural Resource Development: Can “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” Implementation Reduce Conflict Over Natural Resource Development?
The good news is that there is growing international support for free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) from governments, international financial institutions, investors and the companies themselves...In 2009, Oxfam documented public commitments to FPIC by the mining companies Rio Tinto and Xstrata, as well as project and/or country specific public commitments to FPIC by Anglo American, BHP Billiton, ConocoPhillips, Pluspetrol, and Talisman Energy...